The Defiant Ones
(1958)

One of the great ones!

Released: 1958-08-14

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Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.

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Tony Curtis

as John 'Joker' Jackson

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Sidney Poitier

as Noah Cullen

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Theodore Bikel

as Sheriff Max Muller

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Charles McGraw

as Capt. Frank Gibbons

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Lon Chaney Jr.

as Big Sam

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King Donovan

as Solly

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Claude Akins

as Mack

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Lawrence Dobkin

as Editor

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Whit Bissell

as Lou Gans

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Carl Switzer

as Angus

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Kevin Coughlin

as Billy

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Cara Williams

as Billy's mother

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Ned Glass

as Doctor

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Nedrick Young

as Prison Guard

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Stanley Kramer

Director

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Stanley Kramer

Producer

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Ernest Gold

Original Music Composer

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Sam Leavitt

Director of Photography

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Frederic Knudtson

Editor

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Rudolph Sternad

Production Design

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Fernando Carrere

Art Direction

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Alex Weldon

Special Effects

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Joseph Kish

Set Decoration

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Nedrick Young

Writer

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Harold Jacob Smith

Writer

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Don L. Cash

Makeup Artist

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Clem Beauchamp

Production Manager

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Paul Helmick

Assistant Director

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Jean L. Speak

Sound Engineer

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Walter Elliott

Sound Effects

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Albert Myers

Camera Operator

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Joe King

Costume Supervisor

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Art Cole

Property Master

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John Franco

Script Supervisor

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